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Topic: Resonator Screen-less Sound Hole Covers |
Richard Sinkler
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aka: Rusty Strings -- Missoula, Montana
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Posted 17 Dec 2019 9:04 am |
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What is the advantage to the screen-less sound hole covers on a resonator?
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Brian Evans
From:
Nova Scotia, Canada
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Posted 17 Dec 2019 10:02 am
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| Pretty much purely aesthetic to have a screen or not. They make no difference sound-wise, to my ears anyway. The screens keep stuff from falling inside the box, which is pretty handy. They catch my flat-pick when I play my round neck, which is quite annoying. My 1935 Dobro has F-holes. The screens are more expensive to make than the ones without screens. |
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Erv Niehaus
From:
Litchfield, MN, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2019 10:06 am
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When you have screens it keeps the flies out. 
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Brad Davis
From:
Texas, USA
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Posted 17 Dec 2019 12:18 pm
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| Supposedly the empty placeholder rings allow more bass response or other presumably trapped tones out of the guitar. I'm not entirely dismissing the idea - everything makes a difference. I just think it's probably so subtle it doesn't matter. Maybe you as the player will hear it, maybe you won't. Listeners probably will not. Mostly just for looks I think. |
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David Knutson
From:
Cowichan Valley, Canada
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Posted 17 Dec 2019 1:44 pm
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When this was being discussed here on the forum a few years ago, a buddy and I did some A/B testing just for fun. My Gold Tone PBS 8-string seemed to have a little bit clearer mid-tones with the screens out, so I left them out. My Shot Jackson 7-string and my OMI Dobro had no difference at all, so I left the screens in . . . . for flies.
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Glenn Wilde
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California, USA
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Posted 18 Dec 2019 2:58 am
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| I drop a lapel mic through the treble side hole so i should probably get a set without screens, it looks kinda toothless with nothing. |
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Brad Bechtel
From:
San Francisco, CA
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Posted 18 Dec 2019 6:16 am
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When you have screens it keeps the flies out.
Erv |
..or in.
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Steve Lipsey
From:
Portland, Oregon, USA
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Posted 19 Dec 2019 2:30 pm
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I heard a big difference on my Beard Jerry Douglas model (that is how it came). And on my Beard R-Model (which I did it to). Much more open, full-range sound. More "modern" as people talk about that...
Note that Jerry D played his signature model for years without screens, but in the last year or so he has started using them...sort of since he started the Earls of Leicester, where he probably wanted that more traditional sound...and then decided he wanted it everywhere...
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Howard Parker
From:
Maryland
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Posted 19 Dec 2019 2:44 pm
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Jerry plays a completely different guitar with the Earls. He was playing an old skinny M-37 before he retired it. He's currently playing a Deco-Phonic M57, another "skinny" guitar which emulates the best of the pre-wars.
Completely different design than the Douglas models. Nothing to do with screens. An apples vs. red meat comparison.
fwiw..For the sake of accuracy.
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Don Barnhardt
From:
North Carolina, USA
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Posted 27 Dec 2019 4:56 pm
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| Looks cool....catches picks |
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